Chapter 146 Hope is in the World

PIAPIA is a crisp sound from the sole of the shoe slapping the cheek. Unfortunately, people in Chang'an City have never seen the comedians wearing skirts in that world. They probably cannot accurately receive the meaning they want to convey. With the regret of being mixed with the pearl , Ning Que took Sangsang out of the courtyard, talked a few gossips with Chu Youxian, and then left the side door. However, before they got on the carriage, they heard the rapid and dense sound of horse hooves sounded from behind.

Sangsang's thin shoulders tightened slightly, and he looked up at him, Liu Ye's eyes were full of inquiring and alertness.

Ning Que smiled and patted her on the shoulder, comforting her, "Even if the prince is so embarrassed that he dares to send his subordinates to chase or beat us in Chang'an City, he will not be so idiotic that he will follow him as soon as he went out."

His judgment was not wrong. The soft-soo-soo-expensive carriages that were quickly following up on the street were branded with royal badges. The coachman looked at this formation and quickly lit the carriage and gave it to the side of the road. However, he did not expect that these things were the same. The carriage with the royal badge of the Tang Dynasty actually stopped slowly.

The green cloth curtains were lifted up, revealing Li Yu's beautiful and pleasant face. Her brows frowned slightly, but there was a smile on the corners of her lips, and she could not tell the true emotions.

Ning Que took Sangsang to get off the carriage and walked respectfully to the window to salute. He may not respect the princess in his heart, but he dare not reveal it in this long street where people come and go. .

"A few days ago, I heard that you are not popular in the academy." Li Yu looked at him by the window with a smile, paused and said, "Today, looking at the banquet, even if you are making a name for the academy, It did not make those classmates feel like they were in the same way. From this point of view, your popularity in the academy is not bad, but extremely poor."

Ning Que responded with a smile: "Popularity is very strange to say, just like the weeds growing on the city wall. It runs wherever the wind blows. If the popularity is not good, sometimes it only means you blow it out. The wind is not strong enough."

"What you said is interesting." Li Yu said with a smile.

Ning Que scratched his head, looked at the woman behind the window, and replied, "It's only when your highness can understand that I will say it."

Li Yu sighed, "If you let others listen to you dare to speak to me in this tone, you will be surprised by your presumptuousness."

Ning Que smiled and bowed, saying , "That's because His Highness the Princess is virtuous and an old acquaintance, so he naturally doesn't need to be too particular about his words."

Li Yu sighed , stared into his eyes and said, "You young man, you are not arrogant when you should be arrogant, and you are so arrogant in front of me."

Ning Que listened to this, and after a moment of silence, he replied with a smile: "Your Highness's words are unreasonable. At least I believe that Prince Longqing today will feel that I am already presumptuous enough."

Thinking of Prince Longqing's ugly and gloomy face before, Li Yu felt comfortable as if he had been washed by the spring breeze. He looked at Ning Que with satisfaction , then at Sangsang beside him, and said appreciatively: "You performed well today, However... for a temporary battle of intention, you are not afraid of committing crimes between the subjects of Yan State and the Xiling Temple at the same time. Your courage has increased a lot compared to previous years. To be honest, it is not like your original temperament and style."

This is a question that seems very ordinary but is actually very sharp. Only those who have really come into contact with Ning Que know that this soldier from the border city has always valued real profit, such as life and death, and has never cared much about false reputation, such as humiliation.

Ning Que recalled the tough and stern moments at the banquet at this moment, and he also felt it was a little interesting. He smiled and shook his head, explaining: "I don't know why, but when I looked at Prince Longqing's behavior , I was very unhappy. When the little Taoist boy said that, I really turned over the table and killed him, but... Your Highness, you know that I can kill him with such a small amount of ability, so I have to stab him for a few words. Interest."

"Is this just interest?" Li Yu said with a smile, and then she thought of the big event that would come to an end . She thought of the forgotten Prince Yan Chongming during the meal today, gradually curled her smile and looked at Ning Que with a serious expression. She was silent for a long time. Then he whispered: "Only one person can enter the second floor this year. Is that person... possible that person is you?"

Ning Que looked at the serious expression of the woman in the window, not knowing how to answer.

"I don't care what the Xiling Temple and the Yan people are thinking, and I don't care what kind of agreement the court reached with them. I only know that I really don't want to see Longqing walk into the second floor."

Li Yu stared into his eyes and said.

Ning Que looked back at her eyes, spread his hands helplessly, and said, "Prince Longqing is a practitioner standing on the threshold of the realm of knowing one's life, a big shot in the Judgment Department of the Xiling Temple, and I... am just an ordinary student in the academy. Your Highness counts on me as a roadblock on his glorious road. Do you think too much of me?"

The luster in Li Yu's eyes gradually dissipated. She looked at Ning Que's clean, fresh but still ordinary face, thinking that she was really confused, how could she think of putting her hope on this guy? She couldn't help but laugh at herself, passing through the window. He reached out, gently pinched Sangsang's cheek, and praised, "You are much more capable than your young master."

For more than half a year, Sangsang often went to the princess's house to play. He was very familiar with Li Yu and did not resist such intimate actions. She burped and said softly, "Young Master is the real competent one."

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Hua Shanyue, the commander of Gushan County , slid his horse's belly and came to the royal carriage. Looking at the carriage that was about to disappear at the corner in front of him, he suddenly said, "I haven't seen him for a year. I didn't expect that the young man in the border town actually entered the academy."

"Last year on the trip, Mr. Lu Qingchen once said something to me. He said that since we have no reason to be sure that Ning Que can enter the academy, why can't we believe that he can enter the second floor?"

Li Yu's eyes crossed the car window, looked at the lively crowd in the streets and alleys ahead, and said calmly: "Today I saw him talking in the courtyard, I suddenly remembered this sentence, and I couldn't help but think of Mr. Lu's strange hope for him. I had an idea, would I misunderstand this time?"

"He performed well at the banquet today, and did not embarrass my Tang Empire and the academy, but... this is just some verbal skills. If he is asked to face Prince Longqing head-on in the battlefield examination room, he is the peerless prince like Longqing in front of the test room. A genius of cultivation, as he said before, is really worthy of him."

Hua Shanyue commented not caring about it. In his opinion, it was not necessary to think about it like this when comparing an ordinary academy student like Ning Que with Prince Longqing, because this idea was too ridiculous.

"Maybe you're right."

Li Yu put down the blue curtain, leaned back on the gold-woven chair cushion, raised his elbow and gently supported his jaw . Because it was clear, there was a playful smile between his eyebrows and eyes .

"If you are really a useful talent, you will become my talent in the future." She thought with a smile and murmured, "Because at least I already know what your vital points are."

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When the carriage gathered and chatted in the middle of the street, a large group of people had already walked out of the main entrance of Deshengju. They were wearing Taoist robes and divine clothes, with a solemn expression. They were just the people in Xiling Temple.

Prince Longqing walked calmly in the middle of the crowd. As soon as he left the door, his beautiful face attracted a lot of exclamations and screams from the women on the street. Listening to these shouts of expressing joy and admiration, he was not moved by it. There was no expression of disgust, but just a solemn and quiet.

He slowly stepped onto the golden carriage engraved with runes. He closed his eyes and was silent for a moment. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and said calmly: "That student in the academy is indeed not a practitioner."

The deputy director of the Xiling Yutianyuan , the priest Mo Li, sat opposite him with a respectful expression. Although the two were in the name of teachers and students, when Prince Longqing became the second person under the temple ruling Sidaoyan , the two began. There is a gap between the superiors and the inferiors, and no one dares to cross half a step.

The priest Mo Li frowned and said angrily, "I don't know if it was deliberately arranged by the Tang people."

Prince Longqing thought of the little maid who was hiding a dark corner and shook his head expressionlessly.

Outside the carriage, melodious and upright music came from somewhere.

Prince Longqing suddenly smiled softly, his handsome face as dazzling as peach blossoms, and he murmured with emotion: "I actually lost my composure for a little maid. It seems that after entering Chang'an City, my heart of Tao was covered with dust."

He was sure that Ning Que and Sangsang were not practitioners, so he didn't want to pay attention to this matter anymore, because his pride lies in other higher-level places. His purpose of coming to Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty was to enter the second floor of the academy, but... …

The smile gradually faded away , and Prince Longqing said indifferently, "Cha Cha who that student is, I hate him very much."

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Back at the old Bizhai in Linsui Qiqi, Sangsang took off the big black umbrella wrapped in coarse cloth behind him and began to prepare to go to cook rice. He drank a lot of strong liquor today, but those exquisite things that nobles liked. The delicious dishes with beautiful fruits are really hard to fill the stomach and intestines of the master and servant who were sharpened by the wind and sand on the frontier.

Ning Que sat on a chair by the window, holding his hands on the window lattice and staring at the blue sky in a daze. Thinking about what happened to Desheng Curie today, he suddenly frowned and said, "I don't know why, I hate that guy very much."

He didn't say which guy it was, but Sangsang knew it was that guy. She poured the well water she drank into a big jar, wiped her hands on her apron, turned around and looked at the window and said, "I don't know why it's very much now." I hate that prince. Today I wanted to touch his face and ask what kind of makeup he was using."

On the second day, Ning Que went to the academy often, and then found that the eyes of his classmates looked at him were a little strange. Perhaps they knew what happened yesterday, but they didn't know what psychological activities were based on, and everyone's eyes were still faintly despised. It means, and it is taken back very quickly.

After the bell rang , Situ Yilan grabbed him in the rain corridor and said with regret: "Yesterday you earned face for the academy. Everyone was a little grateful to you and even felt guilty, but why did you want to leave before you finally left. Saying such words to provoke everyone? It's a pity that this opportunity for both sides to repair it."

"I didn't do this, so why should I give them a chance to repair it?" Ning Que replied with a smile, and then went to the old bookstore.

Late at night.

Ning Que looked at the tangerine pie who was panting from the bookshelf , gave him expensive crab roe porridge with both hands, put a cushion for him, and then bowed with both hands very seriously and bowed.

Tangerine Pipi was stunned and speechless with the crab roe porridge.

Ning Que's smile on his face was extremely sincere, countless times more than most of the salty duck egg yolk mixed in the academy crab roe porridge. He looked at Chen Pipi and said sincerely, "There is only one person who can enter the second floor tomorrow. I really want to enter, and I really don't want Prince Longqing to enter. Do you think... how much hope do I have?"

"Don't look at me like this. I know that Prince Longqing is like a son of god from heaven, and I am just an ordinary earth lump in the world. I want to compete with him for the realm of cultivation and strength, and I want to beat him in the entrance examination. No matter how you look, there is no hope, but I want to..."

"If you secretly tell me the test questions, maybe I hope it will always be in the world?"